Getting to rotate

[Irishking03]

@mikemountain or anyone

Where is the setting to rotate the game. I currently have this in the config.json

{
"preferred": {
"teams": ["PHI", "DAL", "WASH", "NYG"]
},
"rotation": {
"enabled": true,
"only_preferred": false,
"rates": {
"live": 15.0,
"final": 10.0,
"pregame": 10.0
},
"while_preferred_team_live": {
"enabled": false,
"during_halftime": false
}
},
"scrolling_speed": 2,
"use_helmet_logos": false,
"debug": "true"
}

BUT I CANT GET THE GAMES TO ROTATE LIKE THEY NORMALLY DO.

[alexanderthebadatcoding]

try changing
"while_preferred_team_live": {
"enabled": true,
"during_halftime": true

[Irishking03]

@alexanderthebadatcoding WOULD HELP IF I Wasn't and idiot. I fixed that and also the PHL for eagles is PHI (SMACKS HEAD).. However now the eagles upcoming game comes up but I also have commanders, giants and dallas as preferred. But not rotating.

[Irishking03]

It Looks like whatever I put in Preferred team as the last team (example "team": ["PHI", "LAR", "DAL", "NYG"]) will populate only. Like in this example is NYG.. If i remove NYG just Dallas populates.. So wierd.

[Irishking03]

I don't know what I did but it is rotating now.

{
"preferred": {
"teams": ["PHI", "WAS"]
},
"rotation": {
"enabled": true,
"only_preferred": false,
"rates": {
"live": 15.0,
"final": 10.0,
"pregame": 10.0
},
"while_preferred_team_live": {
"enabled": true,
"during_halftime": false
}
},
"scrolling_speed": 2,
"use_helmet_logos": false,
"debug": "true"
}

[alexanderthebadatcoding]

I think there is a bug in the code, there's a post saying that the while preferred_team_live settings can cause an Issue. I think what is happening is that the code checks if a preferred team is playing, but then shows the first result returned from the API: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/nfl/scoreboard, which for this week is Dallas vs Seattle.

thats what my guess is. I just made sure to have rotation "enabled": true, and
"while_preferred_team_live": {
"enabled": true,
"during_halftime": true
}.

That way It will just always rotate the games shown.

[Irishking03]

Now issue is the board with randomly turn off after a period of time. I have to log back in the pi (SSH) and re-enter the code.

[alexanderthebadatcoding]

You could try to set a Supervisor task to run the script continuously, and if it crashes then restart it.
sudo apt-get install -y supervisor
sudo service supervisor start
then in
/etc/supervisor/conf.d/
add a start.conf file

[program:scoreboard]
command=sudo python3 led.py
directory=/home/pi/
autostart=true
autorestart=true
stderr_logfile=/home/pi/boot.err.log

supervisorctl reread
supervisorctl update
sudo supervisorctl start scoreboard

More information here: https://serversforhackers.com/c/monitoring-processes-with-supervisord

Also I created a script that switches between the NFL and NBA scoreboard etc.
But you might need to edit the settings a little bit to get it working.
What I did was created and led.py script and then set that to run on boot.

and then the led.py script has:

import subprocess
import os

# Define the paths to the two scripts you want to switch between
nfl = '/home/pi/nflscore/main.py'
nba = '/home/pi/nba-led-scoreboard/main.py'

def run_script(script_path, duration):
    try:
        # Run script
        process = subprocess.Popen(["python3", script_path])
        # print("Loading " + script_path)

        # Wait for the specified duration
        time.sleep(duration)
        # Terminate the subprocess
        process.terminate()

    except Exception as e:
        print(f"An unexpected error occurred: {e}")
        # Handle the unexpected error, for example, exit the script
        exit(1)

while True:
        # Run NBA
        print("Showing NBA Scoreboard")
        run_script(nba, 200)

         # Run NFL
         print("Showing NFL Scores")
         run_script(nfl, 100)

However for this to work I did have to edit the renderer files to change the paths for the logos. But maybe there is a way around that.